Nejc Prah is a Slovenian designer. He works with a wide range of clients, occasionally teaches at the Academy in Ljubljana and often gives workshops and lectures in various institutions around the world. He collaborates with Ansambel, a network of designers, illustrators, animators and photographers, which enables him to scale up the studio when needed. Nejc worked as an art director at Bloomberg Businessweek in New York before starting his own studio in Ljubljana in 2019. He earned an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2015.
Undefeated
Seasons
Baltik
C. G. Jung cover
Tabar
kip identity
Center Rog
Hedgehogs #2
Selected Clients
- Atlantic Records
Remote EP - Bloomberg Businessweek
Forza Italia - Boiler Room
Have you tried reseting the system? - Brain Magazine
Cover art - Brumen Foundation
Brumen Biennial identity - Celtra
Communication - Dinamo
Fabian & Johannes - Fader Magazine
F for Fader - Frank Ocean
DHL - Gilligan Moss
Yugo for GM - Goat
- Homer
Pierce it! - It's Nice That
INT x Adobe colab - NBA2K
- The New York Times
Illustration about a sex pass - Opening Ceremony
Beastie Boys - Playboy
- Portikus
- Sadar+Vuga
- The Shed
- Slavs and Tatars
for the Crack Up - Crack Down publication - Tank Magazine
Ice cream for Rosie and Kourosh - TYB
- Type Directors Club Tokyo
Signage for the exhibition in Tokyo - Undefeated
- Vice
Fanatics: the deep end - Yale University
Commencement 2014 - Die Zeit Campus
Warum bin ich so müde?
![Custom poster framing](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/58f4jtl3yfBWUdtmWUEiSD/cb136611e63e841dc4c9119e7bb34a46/nejcprah_about_1.jpg?w=853&h=1066&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Knitting tests with Jona](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/1QF7ZLggrTlxElrFv2HP8l/7722478011fa17e9b2fa6dc85d237d3f/nejcprah_about_3.jpg?w=853&h=1066&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Molecule chair prototype](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/6S4I2vJOVUixX5FOjKTSkb/e4b898d7a4e74c1a409a9ad4b0b32258/nejcprah_about_5.jpg?w=853&h=1066&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Bedside table design](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/4ZdOQkE37LuF6tRDXCzE0Q/5748a3dab53532d43e257896e577ceab/nejcprah_about_4.jpg?w=853&h=1066&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
Exhibitions
Nejc regularly participates in various international exhibitions showcasing contemporary design. He contributed to Typojanchi Typography Biennial in Seoul, Demo festival in Amsterdam, Chaumont festival in France, NADA fair in New York, several exhibitions at the Ginza Graphic Gallery and the G8 gallery in Tokyo, among others. His first solo show, titled ‘Mal za hec, mal za res’ opened in Ljubljana in 2017.
![Flags for peace, Netherlands](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/3YcOJKLtQQjQGJKlUZCITv/aca772aaf974e6fa15bf907900745730/Exhibitions_4.jpg?w=1600&h=2000&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Solo show, Ljubljana, photo by Klemen Ilovar](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/mhGEuKHXZK9EzfgMMvCCK/12971e07a7126a9640eb39bec2a69edc/Exhibitions_1.jpg?w=1600&h=2000&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Typojanchi Biennial, photo by Kisu Park](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/1NehV4p5UKrr6JimTY5wE7/162cf8ad5b0c736d29c215c1d815d513/Exhibitions_5.jpg?w=1600&h=2000&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Illuminating graphics, Tokyo](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/37wgFBXjgGMfmeS51dchWl/8fb77abb7d7a801e962b75c868879258/Exhibitions_3.jpg?w=1600&h=2000&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
Lectures
2023
HSLU Luzern, lecture, CH (zoom)
2023
FLU Cetinje, lecture, MNE
2022
University of Seoul, lecture, KR
2022
ZHDK Zurich, lecture, CH
2022
Post design Stockholm, lecture, SE
2022
ALUO Uho, lecture, SLO
2022
ABK Stuttgart, lecture, DE (zoom)
2021
ECAL Master Type Design, lecture, CH
2021
RISD, lecture and crit, USA
2021
Central St. Martens, lecture, UK
2021
INTL conference, lecture, SCT
2021
Burg Giebichenstein University, conversation with students, DE
2020
EKA GD, lecture, EE
2020
Academia Nuts, lecture, SLO
2020
Indigo festival, lecture, SLO
2018
Hopscotch Reading Room, lecture, DE
2018
Shilington College, lecture, USA
2017
City Hall Ljubljana, lecture, SLO
2017
TDC Tokyo, lecture, JAP
2017
University of Brighton, lecture, UK/USA
2016
Rutgers University, lecture, USA
2015
Parsons The New School, lecture, USA
2015
TDC Tokyo, lecture, JAP
2013
Vojnik conference, lecture, SRB
Selected Press
2021
It's Nice That, UK
2020
It's Nice That, UK
2020
RTV Slovenia, SLO
2020
Delo, SLO
2020
Val 202, SLO
2020
ARS, SLO
2019
Communication Arts, UK
2019
Mladina, SLO
2019
Outsider, SLO
2018
It's Nice That, UK
2018
Page magazine, DE
2018
It's Nice That, UK
2016
AIGA Eye on Design, UK
2016
It's Nice That, UK
2016
Tunica Magazine, USA
2015
It's Nice That, UK
2022
Design360, CN
2022
BranD Magazine, HK
2022
La Vie, TW
![One of the slides from Nejc's portfolio talk](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/1digrbBMEEQvy9boULovig/b54b7323b60fca2addb934df793cb48e/Slide_1.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![A slide from the lecture about an ongoing research on vernacular design](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/5tkLjbBWvousPdOiP90kLz/e49a9f4175d1b857bcc605dd571945da/slides.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
Workshops and Tutoring
2023
Letterform explorers, 5-day type-design workshop, ALUO, SLO
2023
Para-intelligence, five-day workshop, Design+Science summer school, SLO
2023
Alt passport, three-day workshop, FLU Cetinje, MNE
2022
Style inventory, four-day workshop, ZHDK Zurich, CH
2022
Welcome to Ljubljana, three-day workshop, Bern HKB, CH/SLO
2022
Excel typography, one-day workshop, University of Seoul, KR
2022
Cohabitation, four-day workshop, Design+Science summer school, SLO
2022
Pocket fonts, two-day workshop, Beckmans college of design, SE
2021
Yearbook, five day workshop, ECAL Master Type Design, CH
2021
Future of food, five-day workshop, Design+Science summer school, SLO
2021
Room font, one-day workshop, Central Saint Martins College of Art, UK
![Yearbook, ecal workshop publication, 2021](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/4mKEuYtG9gY0snsPPjIrFX/9d9c8486536ba1e3ca33eef511bf945c/ecal.jpg?w=1049&h=1354&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Postcard kiosk with HKB students, 2022](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/3pJY0ymoyvJEx5s3pBe1Sz/3c8117de48706c4560ba14902de1dff5/HKB.jpg?w=789&h=1000&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
![Results from the Excel typography workshop at University of Seoul, 2022](https://images.ctfassets.net/mxekiq8jl6uh/1XJJLWSGbSZ8pk6muejbJA/e28e6724ac68898a3521c9eddf995f81/seoul.jpg?w=1500&h=912&fl=progressive&q=75&fm=jpg)
Awards and Recognitions
- 2022TDC Tokyo prize nominee, JAP
- 202210th Brumen biennial, category award, SLO
- 2020D&AD award, wooden pencil, USA
Cover for Bloomberg Businessweek - 2020Prešeren fund award, SLO
- 2020Tresk festival award, best album design, SLO
Uho je senca očesa, with Matej Stupica - 20199th Brumen biennial, category award, SLO
33rd graphic biennial identity - 2019American Society of Magazine Editors, Best cover nomination, USA
Cover for Bloomberg Businessweek - 20178th Brumen biennial, Grand Prix, SLO
Koordinate zvoka poster series, with Klemen Ilovar - 20178th Brumen biennial, category award, SLO
Koordinate zvoka poster series, with Klemen Ilovar - 2017The ones to watch, Itsnicethat.com selection, UK
- 2017ZGRAF, honorable mention, HR
Koordinate zvoka poster series, with Klemen Ilovar - 2017TDC Tokyo, TDC award, JAP
Koordinate zvoka poster series, with Klemen Ilovar - 2016TDC New York, Certificate of Typographic Excellence, USA
Cover for Bloomberg Businessweek, with Tracy Ma - 2016Young Guns Club, Selected by ADC New York, USA
Koordinate zvoka poster series, with Klemen Ilovar - 2015TDC Tokyo, Grand Prix, JAP
Pecha Kucha for Yale - 2015Toby Dewan Lewis Fellowship, Yale, USA
- 20157th Brumen biennial, selection, SLO
- 2014TDC New York, Certificate of Typographic Excellence, USA
Challe Salle in Tribuna mag by Klemen Ilovar - 2014Chaumont, international poster festival, selection, FR
- 2013ZGRAF, honorable mention, HR
Tribuna newspaper, cover by Tjaša Pogačar